Andy Young – grew up in southern West Virginia and has lived most of her adult life in New Orleans, where she teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. A graduate of University of North Carolina  at Chapel Hill and Warren Wilson’s Program for Writers, her second full-length collection, Museum of the Soon to Depart, 2024 was just published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. She has also made four chapbooks and two kids. She has won the Patricia Spears Jones Award, the Nazim Hikmet Award, and has been granted residencies in Virginia, Louisiana, Vermont, and Barcelona.